I've updated PEP 683 for the feedback I've gotten. Thanks again for that!
The updated PEP text is included below. The largest changes involve
either the focus of the PEP (internal mechanism to mark objects
immortal) or the possible ways that things can break on older 32-bit
stable ABI extensions
On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 4:21 PM Antonio Cuni wrote:
> When refcheck=True (the default), numpy raises an error if you try to resize
> an array inplace whose refcnt > 2 (although I don't understand why > 2 and
> not > 1, and the docs aren't very clear about this).
>
> That said, relying on the exa
On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 9:16 AM Petr Viktorin wrote:
>>> But tp_dict is also public C-API. How will that be handled?
>>> Perhaps naively, I thought static types' dicts could be treated as
>>> (deeply) immutable, and shared?
>>
>> They are immutable from Python code but not from C (due to tp_dict).
Responses inline below.
-eric
On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 7:22 PM Inada Naoki wrote:
> > For a recent example, see
> > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/B77BQQFDSTPY4KA4HMHYXJEV3MOU7W3X/.
>
> It is not proven example, but just a hope at the moment. So option is
> fi
On 23Feb2022 2240, h.vetin...@gmx.com wrote:
On top of that, I think the formulation you chose does not map correctly to
actual compiler capabilities. C99 (minus C11 optionals) only arrived in VS2019,
there were still gaps in VS2017.
Additionally, Visual Studio version doesn't directly map to t
